[R] Month names
Prof Brian Ripley
ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Mon May 24 16:06:47 CEST 2004
format(ISOdate(2000, 1:12, 1), "%B")
On Mon, 24 May 2004, BXC (Bendix Carstensen) wrote:
> This is how I get the month names from within R:
>
> > mon <- rep(strptime("01/01/1952", format = "%d/%m/%Y"), 12)
> > mon$mon <- mon$mon + 0:11
> > mnam <- months(mon, abbreviate = F)
> > mnam
> [1] "januar" "februar" "marts" "april" "maj" "juni"
> "juli" "august" "september"
> [10] "oktober" "november" "december"
>
> Surely someone on the list can beat that in elegance?
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Brian D. Ripley, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
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